Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TGAT Report ( DES 1987 ) on testing within the National Curriculum has suggested that parents be helped by having schools ' published test results set against the socio-economic circumstances of the pupils . |
| 2 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 3 | Each borrower under a variable interest rate loan pays the lending bank(s) LIBOR plus the agreed spread at pre-determined reference dates set in the loan agreement . |
| 4 | American firms issue paper privately mainly to skirt the burdensome disclosure rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 5 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 6 | Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom . |
| 7 | The ‘ cost pass-through ’ mechanism is designed to override the five yearly profit limits set by the director general , called the K-factor . |
| 8 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 9 | the cauldrons at their backs , great stone tubs set in the floor and covered with some sort of green scum on either side . |
| 10 | Starting at page A two , paragraph five and nine indicate that there is presently a gap of so of some eleven point four million pounds , between the overall spending limits of three hundred and eighty-one point four million pounds , agreed by the Policy Committee last November , and the provisional cutting limits set by the Government of three hundred and seventy million pounds . |
| 11 | It was later estimated that , because of the rising price of oil and increasing production quotas set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , this figure was an underestimate . |